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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. See more awards » Videos A magical nanny helps bring the two children she's in charge of closer to their father through songs and magical adventures. Director: Robert Stevenson Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, and 3 more credits » Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. Director: Tim Burton When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker Stars: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure. Director: Richard Donner A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.

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Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring? Written by Rick Munoz <rick.munoz@his.com> It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun! See more » Genres: 30 June 1971 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Willy Wonka y la fábrica de chocolate See more » Filming Locations: 3 Channel Stereo (5.0 Surround Sound) (L-R) Color: Did You Know? Trivia The bees that were used in the gum machine were actually wasps. Paris Themmen , a notorious troublemaker on the set, apparently released them from their bell jar and was stung on the face as a result.

See more » Goofs When everyone is on the boat, Sam Beauregard refers to Mr. Salt as "Salt." Some viewers have misheard this as the first name "Saul," which would contradict him being introduced as "Henry" earlier in the movie. See more » Quotes [first lines] Bill, candy store owner : All right, all right, all right, what's it going to be? A Triple Cream Cup for Christopher. A Sizzler for June Marie. And listen! [the children fall silent] Bill, candy store owner : Wonka's got a new one today. Children: What is it? See more » Crazy Credits At the same time as the end credits are playing, the film shows the Wonkavator rising higher and higher. See more » Connections (I've Got a) Golden Ticket (uncredited) (Todmorden, England) – See all my reviews Surprisingly, Roald Dahl (author of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, on which this film is based) reportedly hated this big screen version of his book. There's no denying that the book is sheer genius, but in all honesty this film adaptation is exceptionally well made too.

In fact, it comes high up on my list of all-time movie favourites. The Wonka Chocolate Factory is an amazing building from which some of the most scrumdiddlyumptious sweets are delivered to the world's candy stores. Wonka-mania hits the world when five golden tickets are hidden inside packs of Wonka bars - for the winners will be granted a tour of the top-secret factory. Young Charlie Bucket, a poor boy whose family cottage lies within sight of Wonka's factory, dreams of becoming a winner - but with barely a penny to his name, does he have a chance? What makes Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory such a success is the way it skillfully blends entertainment and a serious underlying moral. Each winning child is exposed as being rotten-to-the-core, then dealt with harshly and dismissively by Wonka. Seeing these awful brats get their come-uppance is hilarious, enjoyable and - on a serious level - quite eye-opening (it's as if parents in the audience are being told how to prevent their children from turning bad). Gene Wilder was simply born to play Wonka (every eccentric phrase, every bemused expression, and every mischievous glance is judged to perfection).

The film's set design is fabulous, with particular high-spots including the chocolate room, the egg room and the wacky corridor which gets smaller and narrower the closer you get to the end. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is simply magic - a film that everyone must see, especially parents whose kids are just becoming that bit too big for their boots! 94 of 110 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Arthur Slugworth : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki More info on Arthur Slugworth Wikis Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Slugworth Gender Male Mr. Arthur Slugworth is a fictional character and an antagonist in the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by British author Roald Dahl . Slugworth in the book In the book, Mr. Slugworth is one of Willy Wonka 's rival chocolatiers. Slugworth, along with Wonka's other rivals Mr. Fickelgruber and Mr.

Prodnose, sent in spies to steal the secret recipes to Wonka's treats. Having obtained these, he began making candy balloons that a consumer blows up to incredible sizes, and then causes to burst before eating them; a plagiarized invention. The work of Slugworth (along with the other rivals) came close to ruining Wonka's factory. Wonka was forced to close his factory and fire all his workers. A few years later, Wonka's factory began working again (operated exclusively by Oompa Loompas ) and his work continued to dominate the candy industry, with no rival able to plagiarize his work because using the Oompa Loompas as his workers enables Wonka to operate his factory without regular employees and keeping it off-limits to the public, so no spies can infiltrate. Slugworth is never heard from again, but it is stated that Slugworth, Prodnose, or Fickelgruber would each give their front teeth to enter Wonka's inventing room (a laboratory) for three minutes. Slugworth in the 1971 film In the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , Slugworth's company is in business.

Inside Bill's Candy Shop, Wonka's products and signs are the most visible; but Slugworth's Sizzlers are also prominently displayed, and one is even sold to a child called June Marie. Also seen are signs for Fickelgruber's candy. Grandpa Joe describes Slugworth as the worst of Wonka's rivals, telling Charlie that he was one of those whose plagiarism convinced Wonka to close his business. A man calling himself Slugworth is a prominent character later in the film. As each Golden Ticket is found, a sinister man approaches the finder and whispers something into his or her ear. After Charlie finds the last ticket, the same man approaches Charlie as well, and delivers what is presumably the same speech he has given the other children, wherein he introduces himself as Arthur Slugworth, president of Slugworth Chocolates Incorporated, and bribes the child to obtain one piece of the newly-invented Everlasting Gobstopper and bring it to him so he can discover and plagiarize the formula. Two of the children respond to Slugworth's bribe: Veruca Salt crosses her fingers behind her back when Willy Wonka asks the children to promise not show the Everlasting Gobstopper to anyone else.

Mike Teavee asks his mother what secrets they can sell to Slugworth; his mother is also heard telling her son to keep his eyes peeled and his mouth shut. Grandpa Joe also responds near the end of the movie. After Willy Wonka snaps at him and Charlie Bucket together for sampling Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Grandpa Joe plans to give Slugworth the gobstopper as revenge. This is foiled however, as Charlie can't bring himself to betray Wonka and thus returns the gobstopper to Wonka. Although at first it seems as though Slugworth is the film's main villain Wonka eventually reveals at the end of the film that the man is not Slugworth, but Mr. Wilkinson who works for Wonka, and that his offer was a moral test of character. The movie does not explain how the false Slugworth was able to approach each winner so soon after they found their tickets. However, it's implied Wonka somehow managed to keep track of the each ticket's destination and then he told Wilkinson where they're most likely to be found. Slugworth/Wilkinson was played by Günter Meisner , a West German actor.

Slugworth in the 2005 film Slugworth only makes a split-second appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . He receives a secret recipe from Prodnose and is not heard of again. Examples of the plagiarization are shown, as is Wonka closing the doors on his workers, including Grandpa Joe. When Grandpa Joe meets Wonka, he tells him he used to work in his factory. Wonka does not seem to recognize Grandpa Joe, instead demanding if Grandpa Joe was one of the spies. Names matter: choosing the right name for your characters | Manuscript Appraisal Agency Names matter: choosing the right name for your characters Posted on by Kit Carstairs March 31, 2015 Names matter. Whether they are quirky and memorable, or simply a way of embodying the dullness of a character, it is important to get it right. Some authors like Ernest Hemingway, used simple names and didn’t feel that unusual or extraordinary names were the key to an outstanding character. While others spend many hours on the subject of naming characters and places.

Charles Dickens, for example, put a great deal of time into offering names for his characters that intrinsically linked them with their own characters, their place in the narrative and the overall narrative itself. Either way you choose to go, names matter. Both these authors knew this fact and chose their character names for a reason. I have popped together a little list of a few great literary names. I am afraid there is no way my energy levels would allow me to explore ALL the great literary names that I could think of, so I shortlisted them and offer you the following. I would love to hear from you though, what are your favourite literary names, and why? And what process do you use in ‘finding’ the right name for your character? GREAT NAMES IN LITERATURE 1. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Where does the name of this great detective come from? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle renamed his central character many times; it was initially going to be Sherrin(g)ford Hope. But this was ‘boo-booed’ by Doyle’s first wife. This choice was partially made (we think) because of his connection to a whaling ship named ‘Hope’.

The story goes on from there with many little steps up, down and across until he successfully landed on ‘Sherlock Holmes’ for his hero. Mr Holmes deserves top-billing for also being one of the most interesting and unique characters to have ever been created in fiction…not just a character, Sherlock has become a cultural icon. ‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.’ 2. Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee) Actually, pretty much everyone in Mockingbird has a fabulous name: Jem, Scout, Calpurnia, Boo Radley. But just for interest-sake: Atticus is an Ancient Roman name meaning ‘from Athens’. And because I know you care: my dogs are named Jem and Scout thanks to this great book…my first dog was named Rhett, a handsome Dalmatian named after a great romantic literary figure (Mr Rhett Butler)…which brings me to… 3. Scarlett O’Hara AND Rhett Butler (Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell) Margaret Mitchell came up with some dynamite names.

And if you don’t agree, well quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn! 4. Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens) Charles Dickens was particular to even the tiniest detail his stories, which led me to believe that there would be a reason for this character name choice, surely he chose the name ‘Ebenezer Scrooge’ intentionally, aware of its layers of meaning?! The name ‘Scrooge’ is a variation of the verb ‘to scrouge’ or ‘to scruze’ – meaning to squeeze or press…which makes sense when you read this description of the character from the book: Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! The name ‘Ebenezer’ is not original to the English language, it is an anglicised version of a Hebrew name – which itself is composed of two Hebrew words. It is a combination of the word for stone (eben) and the word for helper (‘ezer).

Thus, an ebenezer would have been a stone that offered some sort of assistance. 5. Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Hemione Granger, Ron Weasley… (Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling) JK really knows how to name her characters (who could forget Dobby?…). Not to mention the things she names: Hogwarts Express, muggles… there is a whole story behind these names I am sure. But I will leave it to you to explore this one. 6. Lolita Entirely creepy. But, enough said. 7. Willy Wonka…Veruca Salt…Augustus Gloop…Arthur Slugworth…Oompa Loompas!! (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl) Do I really need to say more? Talking of an imaginative take on character names… 8. Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens) Yet another wonderful creation, thank you Mr Dickens for some truly legendary names! Oliver is given his name by Mr Bumble, a parish authority – named according to an alphabetical system…because it was time for a ‘T’. 9. Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby, F.

Scott Fitzgerald) Actually, the character’s ‘real’ name is James Gatz – but he retitled himself Jay Gatsby in order to reinvent himself from a poor man to what he becomes – and also to impress ‘the girl’! 10. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collines) The character’s first name comes from a plant called sagittaria (a tuber plant usually found in water). The root of this plant can be eaten, as Katniss does in the book. Her father tells her: ‘As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.’ The plant also shares its name with a constellation in the Zodiac called Sagittarius, or ‘The Archer’, which may also reference Katniss’s skills in archery. Her last name comes from Bathsheba Everdene, the central character in Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. According to Collins, ‘The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts’. 11.

Pippy Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren) Pippi Longstocking was named by the author’s nine-year-old daughter (full name: Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking) – don’t kids just say the darndest things?! 12. Lucy Pevensie, Mr Tumnus, Eustace Scrubb, Reepicheep, Aslan… (The Chronicles of Narnia series, C.S. Lewis) Like Harry Potter, this book was brought alive in our imaginations through all the details that the author’s thought to imagine up – and the names of the characters and places were integral to this. These are the actual tapes that we would listen to! Narnia was a thing of my childhood; we had every book as an audio book and every family road trip was narrated by our beloved tapes. We would listen to them as we drove through the Australian outback. We’d often make a point of leaving before the light had struck the land, which made the stories and the characters somehow seem even more magical.

I have very happy memories of these roadtrips – and my parents must have been patting themselves on their back for finding something that kept us quiet and happy for so long! 13. Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen) How could anyone forget Mr Darcy? It is possibly the ultimate Jane Austen hero name and screams strong, broody and handsome! The name ‘Darcy’ has also managed to transcend romantic literature; in 2010 a protein sex pheromone in male mouse urine, that is sexually attractive to female mice, was named Darcin in honour of the character. About Kit Carstairs Kit Carstairs has background in book and magazine publishing, academic research, marketing and broadcasting. She has almost a decade of experience working with a wide variety of content including: fiction (adult and children’s), general non-fiction (craft, gardening, home improvement, general DIY, food titles, natural history, general reference, photography) as well as working with corporate (marketing and sales material, business reviews and papers) and academic content (research publications and thesis).

Having worked both as a freelance editor and as an in-house editor and project manager in publishing, Kit has a comprehensive understanding of the importance of content development and the need for authors to be proactive in developing manuscripts that represent their full potential. As well as providing manuscript assessments Kit is also able to offer her editing and proofing services (POA) as well as fast and accurate transcribing services (POA). Contact Kit to discuss these services in more detail. Kit lives and works in the inspirational surroundings of the Blue Mountains, in Australia's New South Wales. Pinocchio and the Chocolate Factory Chapter 1: A Bad Discovery Leads to a Wish, a Disney + Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Crossover fanfic | FanFiction By: CoralSnakeUSA The Blue Fairy grants candy Maker Willy Wonka a wish concerning his Golden Ticket contest and to grant it sends Geppetto, Pinocchio, Lampwick and Peter on yet another special mission to to help Willy Wonka's wish come true.

Rated: Fiction K - English - Fantasy/Friendship - Chapters: 9 - Words: 33,005 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 1/19/2011 - Published: 12/7/2010 - Status: Complete - id: 6536466 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten Next > Pinocchio and the Chocolate Factory. This story brings Pinocchio and his family into the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a result of a wish to the Blue Fairy on the part of Willy Wonka concerning his Golden Ticket contest. The Willy Wonka depicted here is a combination of the character as interpreted by both Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp. (basically the 2005 Depp Wonka but with the pro family attitude of the 1971 Wilder one).

The Oompa Loompas here are the orange skinned, green haired individualized ones of the Gene Wilder movie but use the Roald Dahl originated songs and the show routines of the Johnny Depp movie as well as the single verses of the Oooma Loompa song from the Gene Wilder movie. The Whangdoodle as depicted here is a giant form of the predatory, non parasitic Assassin Bugs of the family Reduviidae. All dialog actuallu from a movie comes from the 2005 version. This story came about when I saw the scene in the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Charlie finds the currency note that finally got him the Golden Ticket in the snow. This note looked for all intents and purposes like it was deliberately placed there and not simply lost. Therefore I built this story on the assumption that the note WAS deliberately placed there in order to insure that Charlie gets the Golden Ticket.

For this purpose I used the Disney Pinocchio characters as the agents of placing the note where Charlie would find it as a result of a wish by Willy Wonka to the Blue Fairy and as Oompa Loompas throughout the tour to keep Charlie from breaking tour rules and thus losing the contest for the Special Prize. Thus this story is both a continuation of my Pinocchio series as well as my first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic story. Chapter 1 - A Bad Discovery Leads to a Wish: Television Room, Wonka Industries Inc. Factory, England, (Unnamed Town), 2005: "Four of the five Golden Tickets have already been found and not a good prospect in the bunch." Willy Wonka thought as he received the latest news from the Oompa Loompa leader Okyla-Kay. "And now this!" "Are you sure that is a whangdoodle that you saw in the Chocolate Room." Willy asked the little orange skinned, green haired man.

"I was positive that we brought nothing back with us from Loompaland when I had your people re established here." "There is no doubt that the monster I saw in the Chocolate Room was what your people's scientists would call a giant version of one of the Assassin Bugs of the family Reduviidae but what our people would call a whangdoodle." the Oompa Loompa leader returned. Willy took a pistol crossbow he had made for such events in out of one of the drawers in his desk. In the United Kingdom such weapons were as illegal as conventional handguns but they were also easily dismanltleable and disposable if Willy would have to let any police into the factory so the crossbow pistol was the device he entrusted the final defense of the factory against things such as snozzwangers and whangdoodles that may have found their way to his factory from Loompaland. The quickest way to the Chocolate Room from the Television Room where Willy was getting the bad news concerning the Golden Tickets was by way of the great glass elevator.

The only other way there involved going down the corridor to the harbor for the Wonkatania and waiting for that boat to take them to the Chocolate Room by way of the Chocolate River. Willy and the Oompa Loompa leader entered the elevator and Willy pushed the button for the Chocolate Room. While in the Process of getting there Willy thought about the four Golden Ticket finders so far. The first Golden Ticket finder was Augustus Gloop from Germany. In his favor was that he certainly liked Wonka candy of all kinds. Going against him was that Augustus Gloop liked it TOO MUCH. The boy was a poster child for childhood obesity prevention and was so piggish in his eating of not only candy but any other kind of food in sight as to be the most disgusting example of gluttony that Willy Wonka had ever seen. On top of that the Augustus seemed to habitually wear short pants and striped tee shirts that showed his obesity to its full gluttonous glory even in cold snowy weather. Perhaps this was because his layers of whale like blubber caused him to overheat in conventional winter clothing even in wintertime. It seemed inevitable that such a glutton would find the first ticket.

This lard butt would not only NOT win the Special Prize but his part in the tour and the contest for it would not get past the Chocolate Room. The Second Golden Ticket winner was if anything even more unfavorable for Willy's plans concerning the Golden Tickets. It was a little girl named Veruca Salt who was so spoiled and pampered by her over indulgent and permissive parents that her father who owned a company and factory of his own, Salt's Nuts Inc. of Buckinghamshire UK bought out Buckinghamshire's total supply of Wonka Bars and had his employees waste their time AND THE CHOCOLATE in order to get the Golden Ticket sent there for his spoiled brat daughter. Furthermore Salt's Nuts Inc. was a business ally of Slugworth's Chocolate Inc., the WORST offender in the spying and sabotage episodes that caused Willy to close down his factory temporarily. The waste of chocolate and the alliance with Slugworth's were two things that Willy Wonka absolutely could not tolerate and there would be a penalty especially suited to a SPOILED brat and her chocolate WASTING crime syndicate allied over indulgent and permissive father when they were removed from the tour and the contest for Willy's Special Prize.

The third Golden Ticket Winner another girl by the name of Violet Beureguarde on the surface seemed to be the type of competitive go getter that would do good with Willy's Special Prize. But she had a serious problem in Willy's book. She was an addicted gum chewer who would chew the same piece of gum day and night putting it away only to go to bed long after the flavor wore off it. In addition to her more conventional awards, medals and trophies for competitive sporting events she held one for chewing the same piece of gum for the longest time ever in world history, a record that even "graced" most of the novelty "world record" books in the literary marketplace. Even though his factory produced chewing gum it was the kind of confection that Willy Wonka least liked due to the disgusting sounds it produced when chewed by addicted and ill mannered gum chewers like Violet and messy and disgusting disposal methods associated with the gum chewing addiction. Boy did Willy have a piece of chewing gum for her when the time for her removal from the tour and the Special Prize contest would come.

The fourth Golden Ticket Winner was a boy who actually seemed to be named as a pun on his addictions and character flaws connected with the ultraviolent television programming, ultraviolent video games and ultraviolent web sites he watched, played and frequented, Mike Teavee. Everything about this boy suggested the ultraviolent fantasy worlds that he addictively immersed himself in through television, video games and the web, especially his clothing of all black and red, typical ultraviolent first person shooter video game colors. His black tee shirt that he wore over a red turtleneck long sleeve tee shirt bore a giant realistic depiction of human skull, probably the logo of some ultraviolent television show or video game that was one of his absolute favorites. If there was not a fifth Golden Ticket still outstanding there Mike Teavee could have been the winner of the Special Prize because of his high IQ and excellent marks in school despite his equally impressive collection of detentions for drawing ultraviolent television and video game characters in class when he should be studying. Willy however did not like the way that Mike found his Golden Ticket.

It reminded him too much of computer hacking and the spying that caused him to have to fire his original employees, even his loyal ones and eventually replace them with the Oompa Loompas. No, Mike was not acceptable either. The lesser of four evils was still evil where the Special Prize was concerned. The contest for that prize therefore rested entirely on the child who would find the fifth Golden Ticket and time was running short for it to be found. If it was not found there would be no alternative but to eliminate the four current golden ticket finders from the Special Prize contest and run a new contest next year to award it. As for Mike Teavee however if all he wanted to do was live in a Rock 'n' Roll world of fantasy ultraviolence on the vidiot box then Willy would oblige him at his removal from the tour and Special Prize contest. However there were more pressing matters to attend to as the glass doors to the elevator opened in the Chocolate room. Willy took his crossbow in a James bond type double handed handgun grip and proceeded into the candy fields and forests that developed around the Chocolate River.

In no time he found the source of the trouble that the Oompa Loompa leader Okyla-Kay reported to him. It was indeed a bug of the Reduviidae or Assassin Bug family about the size of Willy Wonka himself, a WHANGDOODLE! There was only two places where a whangdoodle was vulnerable, the first was between the head and the thorax and the second was between the thorax and the abdomen. Willy went for the head to thorax connection shot with the crossbow and made it perfectly before the great Assassin Bug that he and the Oompa Loompas knew as a whangdoodle knew of his or Okyla-Kay's presence. The head was immediately severed by the special crossbow bolts designed for this purpose. One had to be very careful about the head of a whangdoodle however. With Assassin Bugs of all types the head was where the STINGER was. This stinger took the form of modified mouthparts designed to inject a combination neurotoxic and digestive venom on one side of it so that the other side of it could suck up a pre digested meal scorpion or spider style.

This stinger was usually tucked under the head of the bug pocket knife blade style until it was to be used and then it was swung out ahead of the bug for an attack. "I want you to report any more of these you see." Willy told Okyla-Kay. "If any more show up I'm arming the Oompa Loompas immediately in order to eliminate the infestation at once before they do to my factory what they did to Loompaland. It was then that Willy looked up at the stars in one of the many great glass greenhouse windows that he used to as a part of the heating system that kept the interior of the factory at tropic temperatures for the Oompa Loompas. One of them shined with a bright blue more intense than all the others, the Wishing Star. Willy Wonka knew about the concept of a Wishing Star form a Disney animated movie, Pinocchio that was one of the few indulgences that his father, Dr. Wilber Wonka DDS allowed him as a child.

However the last thing that Willy ever thought was that such a fantasy would ever be seen by him even though he in effect turned his candy factory into just the type of fantasy world appropriate to the appearance of such a star. "Would a wish on that star get the final outstanding Golden Ticket to the right child, one hundred and eighty degrees opposite the four who have found the previous Golden Tickets" he thought. The fact that Willy already had the Wonka bar with the last ticket in his possession and was going to have it placed in a candy store in the same town that the factory was located in would help matters some but with time being so short the wish was worth a try too. Willy Wonka made the recital that others had made when they saw this star over centuries of time. "Star light, star bright, the first star see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the Wish I make tonight." Willy then re entered the great glass elevator and pushed the button for his office and quarters in the administration section of the factory and once there got ready for bed. The fate of the fifth Golden Ticket was now in good hands as far as he was concerned.

Pleasure Island Collodi, Italy, 1882: It had been over a month since the Blue Fairy contacted Pinocchio's family regarding special missions. However since Magica De Spell broke the Coachman and the Ringmaster out of their respective jails Geppetto knew that this time would come again. "Is this about the Coachman and the Ringmaster again." Geppetto asked the Fairy. "For once I think I can say that even though they are at large again this is not necessarily about the Coachman or the Ringmaster though that pair could conceivably gum up the works where this assignment is concerned. I am simply calling on you, Pinocchio, Peter and Lampwick to help in the granting of a wish to a candy maker named Willy Wonka in the year 2005." "What exactly is the nature of this Wonka person's wish that you can't grant it with your magic alone." "Basically he does not want to have a puppet turned into a boy like you did but he is looking for child apprentice and eventual heir for his candy factory through the use of a contest involving five Golden Tickets distributed to strategic towns in his Wonka chocolate bars.

Four of the tickets have been found but all four of the children that found them are not acceptable as prospective leaders for the secret employees of the factory. A little people called Oompa Loompas. Wonka's wish is for the last Golden Ticket to come to the hands of the right kind of child." "Do you have anybody in mind for this?" Geppetto asked. "Yes," The Fairy returned. "There is a poor family from the same town as Willy Wonka's candy factory named the Buckets. They have a boy named Charlie that almost perfectly matches what Willy Wonka is looking for. Even though this Charlie Bucket did not make a wish to me he seems to be the most deserving of this position of the children I have looked at with the exception of your three adopted sons of course but I would not call upon you to give any of them up permanently to Mr. Wonka. Therefore you and your sons' assignment will be to get the final Golden Ticket to Charlie Bucket and keep a secret watch over him during the factory tour to make sure he does not break any tour rules and lose the contest for the apprenticeship and inheritance of the factory.

To do that successfully I will have to change your kids again, this time to reasonable facsimiles of Oompa Loompas. I will have to admit that there will be a dark side to this one, as song and dance Oompa Loompas your sons will be participating in some punishments that might remind them of this island of yours under the Coachman's and Ringmaster's rule involving the four unacceptable children. However be assured that everything that happens to them no matter how bizarre is only temporary in its effects and not intended to sell them into slavery." "Besides this four bad kids business is there anything else we need to know about this particular mission?" Geppetto asked. "Yes, It also appears that one of the Giant Reduviid Assassin Bugs from Loompaland that the Oompa Loompas call whangdoodles was found at the factory before Willy Wonka made his wish." The fairy returned. "In case this may not be a natural whangdoodle but a magical one created from a normal sized assassin bug I think you should carry anti magic arms again.

The United Kingdom where Willy Wonka's factory is located has virtually absolute "gun control" laws affecting even non firing replicas of genuine weapons so these weapons will take the form of harmless laser pointers this time." "What makes you think that this whangdoodle may be a magical one rather than a natural one who's egg merely made the trip to the candy factory from this Loompaland place the Oompa Loompas came from and hatched there." Geppetto asked. "Remember, the Coachman and the Ringmaster are at large again and Magica De Spell is still working with them." The Fairy answered. "They may see Wonka's candy factory as the perfect version of Pleasure Island for the 2005 time period and may be trying to get it abandoned by capitalizing on the fears of the Oompa Loompas and Willy Wonka for giant assassin bugs under the name whangdoodles to get them to abandon it so that it can be turned into a boy to donkey factory." "Then this just might involve the Coachman, the Ringmaster, Magica De Spell or all three again." Geppetto returned.

"In all probability they are involved with the whangdoodle / assassin bug business." the Fairy said. "However right now I would say they are working as hirelings for either Slugworth's Chocolate Inc. owned by Arthur Slugworth or Salt's Nuts inc owned by Henry Salt. both of which have issues with Wonka. Sometimes I really think that Henry Salt only went to the trouble of finding that Golden Ticket for his daughter Veruca to gain access to Wonka's factory and resolve those issues by more spying and sabotage through her." "Then we in effect are inserting ourselves in some kind of a candy war between Slugworth, Salt and Wonka in which the Coachman, the Ringmaster and Magica De Spell might be involved for their own reasons." Geppetto returned. "Not exactly," the Fairy returned. "Slugworth buys the nuts that he uses in his nutty chocolate confections from Salt so they would appear to be allies both also have the typical elite "progressive" attitude that everybody below them in the genetic social order are worthless "stupid" peasants who don't deserve the time of day from them and neither of them have ever willingly given a dime to any charity helping those they call the "inferior".

I personally think this whole assignment will be worth it when Slugworth and Salt find out that the poorest of those "stupid peasants" Charlie Bucket is going to eventually inherit the Wonka factory and fortune and be right up there with them." This will be a short mission however, one day to get the last Golden Ticket into Charlie Bucket's hands and the day of the factory tour itself so you are not much likely to encounter the Coachman, the Ringmaster or Magica De Spell this time around." "Geppetto told one of his uniformed administrators who functioned as police and paper pushers for his administration of Pleasure Island to have Pinocchio, Peter and Lampwick meet him at the ferry docks immediately. Once there Pinocchio guessed the reason for the meeting. "Another Blue Fairy mission," he said. "I've heard in the grapevine that the Coachman and the Ringmaster are loose again by way of Magica De Spell." "Yes, it is a mission," Geppetto returned. "but it does not have to do with the Coachman, the Ringmaster or Magica, at least not yet.

We will be helping the Blue Fairy grant a wish for a candy maker in the year 2005 named Willy Wonka in England." "What is the wish?" Peter asked. "Wonka is looking for a child apprentice and eventual heir to his candy factory through a contest he set up." Geppetto answered. "The four children that have been found so far by means of Golden Tickets placed in the wrappings of his company's chocolate bars are unacceptable and we are to see that a child of the Blue Fairy's choice gets the last Golden Ticket, a boy named Charlie Bucket. And to see that he keeps to the rules Wonka sets up and wins the main contest for the apprenticeship and inheritance of the factory. There is one more thing that I must tell you about this mission. In the second part of it each of you will be changed into adult phase of a small people called Oompa Loompas that work at the factory and will be taking part in the punishments of the four unacceptable children that disqualify them from the main contest with real Oompa Loompas. And some of these will be very weird like the donkey changes that used to take place on this Island.

Lampwick suffered the most from the donkey change so if he wants to bow out of this one let me know right now because the Blue Fairy will be here in a few minutes to take us to the candy factory in England." "Of course I will NOT bow out," Lampwick said. "I owe the Blue Fairy my humanity and will do whatever she requires of me." Suddenly the sky filled with the even brighter light of a transport bubble that formed around Geppetto and his family. "I'm glad to hear you say that." a small voice came from under Pinocchio's Tyrolean cap. "Jiminy!" Pinocchio shouted. "Yes," Jiminy returned. "The Blue Fairy thinks I should be in on this too. She thinks you can make use of my experience as your official conscience when you were a puppet where Charlie is concerned." "But why." Pinocchio asked. "This Charlie person is a real boy from start with a conscience of his own." "Yes," Jiminy said "but part of your duties as a temporary Oompa Loompa is to keep Charlie from any temptations in the factory that might appeal to him and thus cause him to lose the main contest and Wonka to have to start all over again.

This is where my experience with you should help you with Charlie." "And as I remember I was not very good at avoiding those temptations as a puppet." Pinocchio returned. "Yes but you did avoid the temptation of cowardice when it counted and saved your father from Monstro at the end of your puppet / donkey life." Jiminy said. "I'm sure that with my help you will lead Charlie down the path of right to his destiny as well." "All ready in there?" the Blue Fairy asked to those in the transport bubble finally putting in her full appearance. "An affirmative shout, "Lets GO!" came from the children in the Transport bubble. With that the transport bubble lifted off toward the now familiar Wishing Star / Wormhole. A secret room in the Slugworth's Chocolate Inc. factory, Buckinghamshire, England, 2005: "So the Golden Ticket contest is still going." Arthur Slugworth said to those assembled in his secret meeting room.

"The Black Triangle will not like this at all." Amongst those assembled was a very posh proper Englishman named Henry Salt who owned the nut company that Slugworth bought the nuts for his nutty chocolate confections from and his daughter Veruca, a dark haired girl of an arrogant and spoiled nature that could be seen in her girl's sized mink coat and designer skirt outfit. The other three were a talking female anthropomorphic duck in a witch's outfit with a white Persian cat, a fat red man that looked like combination of the first Golden Ticket winner Agustus Gloop and a 19th century coachman. The third was African and looked like a 19th century circus ringmaster. "Well," Slugwirth said to the Coachman, the Ringmaster and Magica De Spell. "Some dark magicians you turned out to be! That assassin bug you made whangdoodle size was knocked off by Wonka almost immediately after its discovery." "How were we to know that Wonka had weapons in that factory in violation of this nation's gun laws." Magica De Spell returned sarcastically.

"Because we do, idiot." Henry Salt returned producing a World War II Smith and Wesson K/200 service revolver from under his coat and pointing it at De Spell. "You point that thing at me again and I'll turn you into a toad with donkey ears." De Spell said pointing her hands at Salt. "Let's quit fighting amongst ourselves." the Coachman said. "We still have plan B involving Mr. Salt's and his daughter's access to Wonka's factory through her Golden Ticket." "You mean that rediculous plan of Salt's where his daughter throws a tantrum in the Wonka's nut sorting room in order to put it out of commission rather than to get something her little spoiled heart wants." Slugworth broke in. "Well, that helps Mr. Salt but I don't see how it helps the rest of us. Both I and the Black triangle's Number 1 want Willy Wonka OUT OF THE BUSINESS, not staying in business and buying his nuts from Mr. Salt. His superior chocolate and other candy lines are causing our sales to go down and when our sales go down our companies' OTHER business for the Black Triangle also suffers.

And of course our three magicians want Wonka's factory for their own reasons that don't involve candy and therefore don't compete with ours or the Black triangle's." "And of course it will only be a matter of time before that Fairy the magicians told me about sends a certain family consisting of a wood carver, a former puppet, a former donkey, a former Russian junior wolfer and an anthropomorphic cricket after them." Salt returned. "We should have never let these three in on our plans." "My Alexandrian magic tells me that she will send them soon, but not after us." The Ringmaster broke in. "They seem to be a part of some Blue Fairy plot to get the last Wonka Golden Ticket to some goody two shoes boy named Charlie Bucket that comes from a very poor family in the same town in which the Wonka factory is located in order to grant a wish made by Mr. Wonka. "Then that means that I will have to go in there with a half starved peasant as well as the German peasant poster boy for childhood obesity prevention and the American gum chewing and couch potato peasants. Veruca broke in.

"This Golden Ticket business is beginning to not look so good after all." "Save your tantrum for Wonka's Nut Room." Mr. Salt told his daughter. "Destroy it and I'll get you that other pony you want." And in the meantime," Slugworth broke in. "We will have to find another plan for shutting down the Wonka factory permanently. And please Mr. Ringmaster and Ms. De Spell no more whangdoodle from ordinary assassin bug tricks?, the last one flew like a lead balloon. Maybe you can find something in there that will get the government to close the place sown when Mr Salt goes on the golden ticket tour with his dauthter. I will be giving Mr Salt a special communications device resembling an ordinary cell phone but with much longer movie/video recording features. He can use that to dig up any evidence that might be of use against Wonka and his factory and send it to me." Next, The plan to bring the last Golden Ticket to Charlie Bucket. Next > The author would like to thank you for your continued support. Your review has been posted. Favorite : Story

Question: Which author created the characters 'Veruca Salt', 'Augustus Sloop' and 'Arthur Slugworth'?
Answer: ROALD DAHL